​Chaosium Announces new licensing deal for French and Spanish with Edge Entertainment

​Chaosium Announces new licensing deal for French and Spanish with Edge Entertainment

Posted by Michael O'Brien
on
January 29, 2019

Chaosium Inc is pleased
to announce a new partnership with EDGE Entertainment. In a comprehensive new
licensing deal, EDGE will publish Chaosium’s roleplaying games Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest in both French and Spanish.

Founded in 1999, EDGE Entertainment is based in Seville, Spain and Toulouse, France. A long-standing
partner of the Asmodee Group studio Fantasy Flight Games, in early 2017 EDGE formally
became part of the Asmodee Group. EDGE is the current licensee for Call of
Cthulhu in Spanish.

Call of Cthulhu is
widely regarded as the definitive investigative horror roleplaying game, and is
popular world-wide. It is currently available in French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, and Spanish translations, and with editions in Polish,
Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish also in the
works.

RuneQuest:
Roleplaying in Glorantha (RQG) is
an all-new
edition of one of the world’s most influential and acclaimed fantasy
roleplaying games. Chaosium released the core rules of the game to
critical and popular acclaim in 2018. A German edition of RQG has been announced, with
other languages soon to follow.

“All of us here at Edge Entertainment are so
excited to be working with Chaosium to make the premier editions of Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest for our French
and Spanish fans.” said Stephane Bogard, studio coordinator at EDGE.

“We were blown away by the distinctive and spectacular
edition of Call of Cthulhu EDGE has produced in Spanish, and we can’t
wait to see what they can do for the game in French, and for RuneQuest in both languages.” said Chaosium Vice
President and Head of Licensing, Michael O’Brien.

Montpellier-based design house Studio Deadcrows will be designing and publishing the French edition of RuneQuest for EDGE.

EDGE takes over the
Call of Cthulhu license from Éditions Sans-Détour in France. Under the terms of
its now-concluded license, ESD is permitted to sell its existing Call of Cthulhu stock until March 31st
2019. Chaosium has also extended
special permission to ESD so it can fulfil its obligations to Ulule
crowdfunding backers of Les Masques de
Nyarlahotep et Le Jour de la Béte, and for those who pre-ordered it up to January
2nd 2019.